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Source: AFP
French authorities volition enactment up for merchantability Thursday a superyacht seized successful a money laundering lawsuit involving a Belarusian national, according to the authorities bureau for handling confiscated assets.
The 41-meter (135-foot)-long boat, Stefania, volition beryllium auctioned astatine the shipyards of La Ciotat, a municipality located to the eastbound of the confederate larboard metropolis of Marseille.
The vessel, built successful 2021, is estimated astatine betwixt 10 and 12 cardinal euros ($10.8-$13 million), and the starting terms has been acceptable astatine 10 cardinal euros.
The Stefania, which features an Art Deco interior, can accommodate up to 10 guests and up to six crew. It has a pool, a jacuzzi and a wood-burning fireplace.
"Many of the details, specified arsenic solid inlaid railings and a transparent flagpole, person ne'er been seen connected a yacht before," according to De Baecque, a steadfast conducting the auction.
The superyacht had been seized successful 2023 during a stopover adjacent Genoa successful northwestern Italy astatine the petition of French authorities.
French constabulary had been investigating "criminal activities" of Belarusian and Ukrainian nationals, according to the Marseille nationalist prosecutor's office.
A probe had been launched into "arms trafficking, cause trafficking and wealth laundering by an organised gang," according to the nationalist prosecutor's office.
Belarusian nationalist Chaslau Koniukh has been identified by French authorities arsenic the proprietor of the yacht arsenic good arsenic a villa connected the French Riviera.
An investigation of "front companies and suspicious movements of funds from taxation havens confirmed a tendency to conceal the fraudulent root of the funds utilized to acquisition a sumptuous villa" successful Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, and the superyacht, according to the Marseille nationalist prosecutor's office.
In May 2023, the villa, estimated astatine 10 cardinal euros, was placed nether judicial control. In October that year, the yacht, which flew the emblem of the Cayman Islands and with a marketplace worth of 16.5 cardinal euros astatine the time, was spotted successful Italy earlier being seized.
Another superyacht was seized astatine the shipyard astatine La Ciotat successful 2022 pursuing Russia's penetration of Ukraine.
The French authorities says the 86-metre vessel, Amore Vero, is linked to Igor Sechin, main enforcement of Russia's largest lipid shaper Rosneft and adjacent state of President Vladimir Putin.
An probe is inactive ongoing.
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Source: AFP
